The Sage of Confucianism and Taoism

The students from Gu Guo who were sitting in the seats watching the light curtain continuously lamented that ranking eleventh completely disqualified them from entering the "Reading Ten Thousand Volumes of Books".

"What a pity..."

I don't know who said something, just three words to express their disappointment.

In the literary world, the eyes of many Shangshe Jinshi became fiery, because there is the most essential difference between the second comparison and the first comparison, and there is a reward!

The eliminated Gu students have no chance to receive rewards.

"I will fight for the courage bell!" Lu Xuzhidao, a top scholar in the Confucian Academy, was second only to Kong Deyu among the ten people in the Confucius Academy.

"I competed once for the Bile Bell last year, and my goal this year is to do it twice!" Yun Xunsong said firmly.

The other students did not have any contempt for these two people. Not only did they become famous in the ten countries many years ago, but they also ranked among the best in traveling thousands of miles last year and this time. Others said that it was arrogant, but the two of them said That's right.

Xun Li said: "Yukong, you fought twice last year, and you will fight at least three times today! Our Qing Kingdom depends on you!"

Unexpectedly, Yan Yukong glanced at Fang Yun and said weakly: "If you had been to the Holy Ruins with me and knew how Fang Yun studied in a wheelchair, you wouldn't say such things."

"Hey, I heard it said in Moral Theory. So last year I dared to say that I would ring the bell once, but today I dare not say it even once." Kong Deyu said with a smile.

The other students were confused and didn't understand what it meant.

A voice sounded in the sky: "A row of bookshelves has a thousand books, one person has one thousand, and one country has ten thousand, so it means reading ten thousand books. The faster you finish reading, the higher the number of books, so you can sit down first."

One hundred people immediately walked over and sat down at the table.

"You can read quickly by calling the books with your hands and turning the pages with your mind. The first person to finish reading a hundred books will ring a 'gallbladder bell'. One sound of the bellbell will turn into ten, and the person who inspired will get 50%, and the classmate will The people in the palace get 30%, and the other students in the academy get a total of 20%! Every time the bell rings, if one person triggers the bile bell, he will get an extra one, and the accumulation starts!

As soon as the voice disappeared, a hundred students all waved to the bookshelf in front of them.

The first book from the bookshelf in front of everyone flew out.

Fang Yun glanced around and saw that the book flying out in front of him was "Wild Grassland", signed by someone Fang Yun had never heard of.

At the same time, Fang Yun saw from the corner of his eye that the book flying to Qiao Juze was "Collection of Shanzhou Folk Songs", the book flying to Yan Zewei was "Twenty-Two Techniques of Complementing the Qin", and the book flying to Gong Yangyu was to explain the "Book of Changes" "Yang's Yitong", what flew to Chen Lile was "Volume 3 of Leizhou Local Chronicles", and what flew to You Nian was a collection of novels "Guolao Tan Yuan".

Fang Yun nodded secretly. He had learned relevant knowledge before coming to the Ten Kingdoms Competition. This second competition, Reading Ten Thousand Volumes of Books, is known as drawing on the strengths of many experts. It is a more complicated test than the Imperial Examination and Shangshu Mountain.

Traveling thousands of miles tests a scholar's practical ability, while reading thousands of books tests his learning ability.

For scholars, learning ability is the foundation of everything.

Not to mention Jingguo's Shangshe Jinshi, even Fang Yun has never read any of these books, because these books are not sold on the market at all, they were only sold decades or even hundreds of years ago, and even if they were available, no one would read them. , because the effect of the imperial examination on literary status is minimal, it is not as good as reading books by semi-sages or great Confucians in the same time.

"Wild Grassland" flew in front of Fang Yun. With a thought, Fang Yun immediately turned the page of the book and a preface appeared. The preface was written by a friend of the author of the book. Fang Yun actually knew the author of this preface, who was a hundred years ago. Bachelor of Confucius. Fang Yun had long memorized the names and simple experiences of all the great scholars, great Confucians, and saints in the history of the human race. There were too many people under the great academicians, and he did not spend time memorizing them.

Fang Yun did not stop reading the preface because it was not important, but read it carefully.

This book is a very ordinary white paper with black text, but in just a blink of an eye, the edges of the black text on the entire page are glowing with a faint white light.

This means that Fang Yun has completely read this page. If he cannot finish reading and cannot understand the basic meaning of the text, the text will not shine and he will not be able to turn the page. He must re-read and re-understand before he can turn the page.

Fang Yun has received so many talents, his mind and literary skills are extremely strong, and his reading ability has long exceeded one eye and ten lines. It only takes him the blink of an eye to read a page, and he can understand the basic meaning of the text at the same time.

Doing this requires a certain amount of talent and literary courage. If the literary courage is not strong, you will quickly become mentally exhausted, and if the talent is insufficient, you will not be able to understand.

Reading thousands of books is more important than talent and daring.

After reading the first page of the book, Fang Yun thought and turned the page. After another blink of an eye, white light appeared on the edges of the black words on the second and third pages. He turned the page again, and the fourth and fifth pages appeared in front of him. The text content of...

The book in front of Fang Yun turned the pages at an extremely fast speed, as if being blown by the wind.

Fang Yun turned the page too frequently. When others turned the page, there would be a soft clattering sound after a few breaths, but Fang Yun's page turning made a constant clattering sound.

Many people couldn't help but turned their heads and glanced at Fang Yun, and were immediately frightened by Fang Yun's terrifying speed of turning the pages.

"Shit luck, it seems that the number of words in the pages of the book is small. Huh, each person's thousand books are evenly distributed. The overall number of words is similar, and the overall text is similar. Don't look at how happy you are now, be careful next time you will feel uneasy !”

"That's right! Let's continue and ignore him. I don't believe he can keep this speed forever!"

A few people finished muttering in low voices and continued to flip through the books.

Qiao Juze was right next to Fang Yun. When he read page 24, he suddenly stopped involuntarily because out of his peripheral vision, he saw Fang Yun waving!

Qiao Juze hurriedly turned to look at Fang Yun, and saw that Fang Yun's first book had only the last few pages left. While Fang Yun was reading the last page, the second book flew to Fang Yun, automatically opened the cover, and The first book flew back to its place on the bookshelf.

"I want to die." Qiao Juze murmured to himself, then looked down at his book and read less than one-seventh of the entire book.

Ordinary Jinshi can see in all directions and listen in all directions, let alone the most outstanding Jinshi from the Ten Kingdoms. Fang Yun's action of exchanging books immediately shocked all the Jinshi. The thirty or so outstanding Jinshi had bright eyes and saw the title of Fang Yun's second book.

"The Fourth Book of Zhang's Seven Governments".

Xun Li suddenly gloated and said with a smile: "Haha, the last book was a book with very few words, but this "Qizhengquanshu" is a book of arithmetic, and its difficulty is second only to "Books of Changes"!

"If you have the ability, show us another page!"

"Arithmetic books have always been among the things that students like me hate the most. I don't believe you are not afraid of luck!"

"hey-hey……"

Xun Li, Lei Shisan and all those who were hostile to Fang Yun were extremely happy.

This is one of the difficulties in reading thousands of books. It is naturally easy to read novels and history books, but it is extremely troublesome to read professional books, and these books are very biased. Even many Jinshi have a photographic memory and can read them line by line. When encountering these books, you can only read them carefully and carefully at the same speed as ordinary people, and learn and understand their meaning over and over again.

When reading thousands of books, people often read dozens of books in the first hour, but may not be able to finish even one book in the next hour.

It's not that I'm illiterate, it's that I can't understand the meaning of the text.

Kong Deyu looked stunned and shouted softly: "Are you going to let people study? If you continue to talk nonsense, I will ask the scholar to seal your mouth!"

The others knew that the Kong family had always had a good relationship with Fang Yun, so they stopped ridiculing Fang Yun and continued reading with a smile, while their ears continued to listen to the sound of Fang Yun turning pages.

Fang Yun listened indifferently, remained calm as usual, and continued reading the book in front of him.

Cui Wang couldn't help but whispered: "Fang Yun, will you read this book more slowly?" Although he asked this, his tone was full of worry, which was different from others' gloating.

"It will be much slower." Fang Yun said casually.

All the students from Jingguo sighed one after another, while a few students from other countries chuckled softly while reading.

Yan Yukong also had a faint smile on his lips, but his smile seemed a little different from others.

Fang Yun's flipping speed has indeed slowed down. He used to be able to read a page in the blink of an eye, but now it takes two blinks of time.

Wow…

The "Encyclopedia of Zhang's Seven Policies" in front of Fang Yun turned the pages faster than anyone else, even some people were reading the simplest poems or travel notes.

At first, everyone was still dubious, thinking that the beginning of the book was very simple, but after Fang Yun turned through half of the pages, it was still at the same speed. Many people were confused, their expressions changed, and they racked their brains and didn't know what to say.

Their reading speed begins to slow down.

You can lie to others, but you cannot lie to others in "Reading Ten Thousand Books", because it is a rule set by the saints to turn the page after reading and understanding it. Even if Fang Yun is a semi-sage, it doesn't matter if he can't understand it until he has read it. I want to turn the next page.

Cui Wang was surprised and happy, and once again couldn't help but said: "Are you saying you are much slower?"

Fang Yun's speed of turning the book did not slow down at all, and said: "The page turning interval is twice as long as before, of course it is much slower."

Dozens of Shangshe Jinshi all rolled their eyes, and several of them laughed angrily at Fang Yunsheng.

"Whoever believes Fang Yun's words will be stupid!" Yan Yukong laughed in a low voice.

Kong Deyu smiled and said: "Who was talking nonsense just now? Keep talking! Say it loudly! Let me listen carefully, and let the people of the ten countries listen carefully!"

The person who had ridiculed Fang Yun the most before lowered his head, blushed, and tried to read the book in front of him.

At the same time, continuous laughter and cheers erupted from the venue outside the literary circles and in front of all the literary schools in Jingguo.

The Jingguo student next to Fang Yun breathed a sigh of relief and continued to study seriously.

Not long after, Fang Yun beckoned again, and everyone stared at the book flying towards Fang Yun.

"Reading Yi Xiang's Theory".

Many people are secretly happy that books like the "Book of Changes" have always been obscure and difficult to understand. Although this book is not famous and was written by a great scholar at most, it is not as profound as the books of great Confucians and semi-sages, but it is definitely not easy to decipher.

Fang Yun's speed of flipping through the book finally slowed down again, and it took significantly longer to read some pages.

Many people secretly breathed a sigh of relief, but they soon discovered that even if Fang Yun's reading speed slowed down, he could still read each page faster than everyone else.

"This bastard!" Kong Deyu shook his head and smiled helplessly. After saying this, he stopped paying attention to Fang Yun and read the book in front of him seriously.

The reading speed of those who were not hostile to Fang Yun did not change from before, but those who hated Fang Yun had distracting thoughts in their minds, and their reading speed began to slow down. The degree of this slowdown was so low that no one noticed.